Center for Public Health and Technology Speaker Series
What’s In a Picture: The Influence of Social Networks on Health
In Partnership with the College of Education and Health Professions, WE CARE Initiative
Noon-1:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, 2022
Graduate Education 239
Lunch provided
Speaker: Dean Mark Williams, PhD, has been a public health scientist and practitioner for more than 30 years. Since 2019, he has served as the M. Joycelyn Elders Professor and Dean of the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Dr. Williams has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on behavioral epidemiology, disease prevention, and health promotion in underserved and minority populations. His scholarly works include seminal studies of HIV transmission in injection drug users, the dynamics of disease transmission in social networks, and the prevention of blood-borne and sexually transmitted pathogens.